F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Apr 2 15:40:01 UTC 2009
Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:53 +0200, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
>> Good computing => "least surprise effect".
>> People coming from windows => ctrl+alt+<fumble>bs "OH CRAP --- I am so
>> XXXX I forgot to save my work files in 15 Word (ops, Openoffice) windows
>> in the past 3 days!!!!"
>
> Openoffice has autosave/crash recovery, so this would not happen.
...which mitigates the alleged "harm" of c-a-bs, weakening the argument
against it.
>> People knowing their systems and just upgrading => x blocked =>
>> ctrl+alt+bs ... ctrl+alt+bs... "what the..." ... CTRL+ALT+BS. "OH SHIT
>> -- I got to hard reboot loosing all the work on console sessions and
>> possibly fucking up that crap of XXXX filesystem the installer forced me
>> to use!!!!"
>
> Ctrl-alt-bs doesn't reboot the kernel so your filesystem loss scenario
> is at odds with reality.
...which means that the alternative (which *is* to hard-kill the entire
system) is far more destructive than c-a-bs; thus, a reason for it to stay.
I'm confused; both of you seem to feel that c-a-bs is better than no c-a-bs?
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